COALA IP: a blockchain-ready Intellectual property licensing protocol - BigchainDB & IPDB Meetup #2 - Jan 04, 2017

COALA Intellectual Property
A blockchain-ready IP licensing protocol

Tim Daubenschütz
@TimDaub
tim@bigchaindb.com
Blockchain IP Self-Sovereignty

http://spotifycalc.com

Submitted 70200 samples in a
single song to GEMA
1 sample = 1 GEMA form
⇒ 70200 forms delivered
Johannes Kreidler, “product placements” (2008)

2015: COALA group forms, meets 3-4 times a year
Fall 2015: COALA IP group forms
Fall 2016: Release of first draft COALA IP whitepaper
Present: Working on reference implementation

Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
Author

Author Creation

Author Creation Manifestation

Author Creation Manifestation License

Author Creation Manifestation License Distribution

COALA IP
Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious
Attribution &
Provenance Licensing Distribution Verification

Goals
● Interoperable
● Extensible & future-proof
● Auditable
⇒ Leverage existing technologies as powerful baseline

= URI-linking of JSON objects
{
"@type": { "/": "<IPLD hash to RDF-Schema of Creation>" },
"name”: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans”,
“author”: { "/": "/ipdb/QmfMLNLyJZgv...y2oqP68Nd2PLhudmK" }
}

Blockchain-agnostic querying
Merkle tree implemented into JSON
>> ipld.resolve('/ipfs/QmfMLNLyJZgv...y2oqLhudmK/author')
>> {“givenNamen”: “Andy”,
“familyName”: “Warhol”}
= Merkle-linking of JSON obj.

= Cross ledger-transfers
payment = {"destinationAccount": "ethereum.pubnet.alice",
"destinationAmount": '1337',
"destinationMemo": {
"right": "/ipdb/QmfMLNLyJZgv...y2oqP68Nd2PLhudmK"
},
“executionCondition”: 'cc:0:3:47DEQpj8HBSa-_TImW-5JCeuQeRkm5NM...uFU:0',
“expiresAt”: (new Date(Date.now() + 10000)).toISOString()}
quote = client.quote(...)
client.sendQuotedPayment(quote, payment)

Extensible & future-proof
{
"@context": {"rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#",
"schema": "http://schema.org/"},
“@graph”: [{"@id": "<coalaip placeholder>/Manifestation",
"@type": "rdf:Property",
"schema:rangeIncludes": {"@id": "schema:CreativeWork"}}
]
}

Party / “Author”
{
"@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Individual>" },
"givenName”: “Andy”,
“familyName”: “Warhol”,
“birthDate”: “1928-08-06”,
“deathDate”: “1987-02-22”
// and any other arbitrary meta data
// TDB: Let’s use an established identity protocol here
}

Creation
{
"@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Creation>" },
"name”: “Lord of the Rings”,
“author”: { "/": "<hash pointing to the Author>" }
}

Manifestation
{ "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to Schema of Manifestation>" },
"name": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
"creation": { "/": "<hash pointing to the Creation>" },
"digital_work": { "/": "<hash pointing to a media blob>" },
"locationCreated": "<URI pointing to a Place object>"
}

DigitalFingerprint
{
"@context": { "/": "<hash pointing to COALA IP's context>" },
"@type": "DigitalFingerprint",
"fingerprintOf": "<hash pointing to a media blob>",
"fingerprint": "Qmbs2DxMBraF3U8F7vLAarGmZaSFry3vVY5zytuN3BxwaY"
}

Right / ”License”
{ "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Right>" },
“usages”: “all|copy|play|stream|...”,
“territory”: { “/”: “<hash pointing to a Place>” },
“context”: “inflight|inpublic|commercialuse…”,
“exclusive”: true|false,
...
"manifestation": { "/": "<hash pointing to the Manifestation>" },
"license": { "/": "<link/hash pointing to the License>" }
}

Right / ”License”
{ "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Right>" },
“usages”: “all|copy|play|stream|...”,
“territory”: { “/”: “<hash pointing to a Place>” },
“context”: “inflight|inpublic|commercialuse…”,
“exclusive”: true|false,
...
"manifestation": { "/": "<hash pointing to the Manifestation>" },
"license": "https://www.ascribe.io/terms#transferring+editions"
}

RightAssignment / “Blockchain-Transfer”
{
"@context": { "/": "<hash pointing to COALA IP's context>" },
"@type": "RightsTransferAction",
"transferContract": [
{ "/": "<hash pointing to a file on e.g. IPFS>" },
{ "@value": "<Contract text>" }
]
}

(J.K Rowling)

Auditable
Author: “Andy Warhol”
Creation: “32 Campbell’s Soup
Cans”
Manifestation: “32 Campbell’s
Soup Cans” Poster
Right: License Manifestation
under License “X”
Creation: “The Scream”
manifestation
creationauthor
author

Auditable
Cans”
Soup Cans” Poster
Organization: “MoMA, NYC”
Assertion: “Correct!”
author
manifestation
creationauthor
author
toAssert

Auditable
Cans”
Soup Cans” Poster
Organization: “MoMA, NYC”
Assertion: “Incorrect!”Assertion: “Correct!”
author
author
toAsserttoAssert
manifestation
creationauthor
author

Directed graph: unreachable nodes?
Discovery?

Directed graph: unreachable nodes?
● Graph search algorithms
● BlockchainQL
● External indices

Interledger: Only fungible assets
=
≠

“Principles of self-sovereign identity”
● Existence: Connect “I” with its
aspects
● Control: User is in full control,
always
● Access: User has full access,
always
● Transparency: “Systems are
FOSS”
● Persistence: ID is long-lived
● Portability: USA ⇔ Canada
● Interoperability: Many systems,
one standard
● Consent: User agrees to usage
of data
● Minimalization: Data disclosure
is minimal
● Protection: User’s rights must
be protected

COALA IP
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Attribution &
Provenance Licensing Distribution Verification
● Community-driven data
models
● branch-specific data
● open IP protocol of
license transactions
● Web of Trust

coalaip.org
coalaip/specification
(CC Attribution 4.0)
bigchaindb/py-coalaip
(Apache 2.0)
bigchaindb/pycoalaip-bi
gchaindb (Apache 2.0)
ipdb.foundation

Thanks for your attention!
Interested? Contact me: tim@bigchaindb.com or @TimDaub

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